Definition of terms

GENERATION-the entire body of individuals born and living at about the same time:

HYPERTEXT-a software system that links topics on the screen to related information
and graphics, which are typically accessed by a point-and-click method.

LITERATURE-written works, especially those considered of superior or lasting artistic

merit.

USAGE-the action of using something or the fact of being used.

DEVELOPMENT-the process of developing or being developed.

ADVANTAGE-a condition or circumstance that puts one in a favorable or superior

position.

GADGETS-a small mechanical or electronic device or tool, especially an ingenious or

novel one.

TECHNOLOGY-the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes, especially

in industry.

RESEARCH-the systematic investigation into and study of materials and sources in

order to establish facts and reach new conclusions.

ESSENCE-the intrinsic nature or indispensable quality of something, especially

something abstract, that determines its character.

INTERNET-a global computer network providing a variety of information and

communication facilities, consisting of interconnected networks using standardized
communication protocols.

WORLD WIDE WEB-an information system on the Internet that allows documents to be
connected to other documents by hypertext links, enabling the user to search for
information by moving from one document to another.

INFORMATION-facts provided or learned about something or someone.

SURVEY-examine and record the area and features of (an area of land) so as to
construct a map, plan, or description.- a general view, examination, or description of
someone or something.

ISSUE-an important topic or problem for debate or discussion.-the action of supplying or

distributing an item for use, sale, or official purposes
RELIGION-the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a
personal God or gods.-a particular system of faith and worship.-a pursuit or interest to
which someone ascribes supreme importance.

ORIENTATION-the determination of the relative position of something or someone

(especially oneself).-the relative physical position or direction of something.

NEIGHBORHOOD-a district, especially one forming a community within a town or city.-

the quality or state of being neighbors

FACTORS-a circumstance, fact, or influence that contributes to a result or outcome.-

a number or quantity that when multiplied with another produces a given number or
expression
CONDUCT- the act, manner, or process of carrying on-organize and carry out.
EXPECT-regard (something) as likely to happen.-regard (someone) as likely to do or be
something.-believe that (someone or something) will arrive soon.

CONVENIENT-fitting in well with a person's needs, activities, and plans.- suited to

personal comfort or to easy performance

TOOLS-a device or implement, especially one held in the hand, used to carry out a
particular function.

Significance of the Study

The purpose of this study is for the students of Jose P. Laurel

High School is for them to:

To let them know the influence of the internet

To let them know the importance and benefits of reading books
To encourage them in balancing their free time in doing both- reading
books and surfing the internet

CHAPTER 2
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE AND STUDIES
 This chapter presents related concepts and literature to establish the
foundation of the present study. The researcher has undergone in depth review
of various literature and studies that build the solid framework to substantiate and
give credence to the existence urgency and importance of the present study.

FOREIGN LITERATURE

The World Wide Web vs. the Library

On the surface, the Internet may seem like a large database of information that can be
compared to a library. The Internet does contain much information, and the Internet is up to
date. However, Library Information Studies, hereafter referred to as LIS, is a scholarly field that
grounds itself in logical organization of and ease of access to information. Compared to LIS, the
Internet falls short to a great extent. The most evident of these shortcomings are cataloguing
and accuracy (Descy, 1997).A library has a very systematic way in which information is
catalogued to enable searchers to locate the desired information. The information is organized
and categorized under the Library of Congress or Dewey Decimal System and is recognized by
scholars worldwide (Dennis & Harrington, 1990). The Web, on the other hand, has no system
for consistency. Different search engines such as Yahoo, Infoseek, and Webcrawler add
information to their databases in different ways. When a search string is entered into these
databases, different results are derived depending on the search engine that is utilized. Descy
(1997) conducted a search for "educational technology" in the three search engines mentioned
above. Yahoo returned no matches, Infoseek returned the "best 100 matches", and Webcrawler
produced 87,987 matches. The resulting information was very different.

Accuracy is another area where the Internet information and library information are dissimilar.
Before information reaches a library, it is filtered in three ways: (a) it is written and/or issued by
an authoritative source such as the federal government or a reliable organization; (b) it is
authenticated as part of an editorial or peer review process by a publisher; or (c) it is evaluated
by experts, reviewers, or subject specialists/librarians as part of collection development (Brandt,
1996). In a library, the information is then selected, reviewed again, evaluated, and catalogued.
The information is selected for specific purposes and specific reasons to be included in a
section. Information on the Web has no evaluation criteria. Anyone can publish anything on the
Web. It is important that teachers and students do not take information found on the Web at
face value. Facts and figures should always be cross-referenced with other resources.However,
the Internet and the Web should not be disregarded as valuable research tools. With proper
training and cross-referencing, both can be highly effective and efficient means by which
students locate information. As computers are becoming more common in schools and homes,
students and teachers are becoming more computer literate and Internet literate.

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ALONG WITH MANY OTHER ASPECTS OF NORTH AMERICAN CULTURE, LITERARY
STUDIES IS BEING SWEPT INTO THE DIGITAL age.

In considering what this might mean, I examine in particular how the Internet, with its many and
protean conveniences for literature, is beginning to supplant the library, that traditional bastion of
the text. The prospects for literature are not necessarily favorable. While libraries have been
attempting to adapt to the Internet, the nature of the digital medium and some of the rhetoric
that has attended it invoke troubling questions, raising the possibility that central features of
literary studies may be in danger of being disregarded or marginalized. The digitizing of
literature affects how we read and what we read, methods of study, the preservation of the
archive, and the forms taken by new writing, some of which is specifically designed to exploit
the electronic medium. In this paper I offer a sketch of the problems, possibilities, and
paradoxes that we face as literary scholars. Developing an appropriate rhetoric to consider the
digital age has, in itself, presented a problem. The promise of the new medium has led to
inflationary claims, suggesting that the human species is about to burst from its chrysalis into an
information utopia. "The development of digitally controlled cognitive prostheses," says Pierre
LCvy, is "transforming our intellectual capabilities as clearly as the mutations of our genetic
heritage." The totality of knowledge will soon become available: it will constitute a knowledge
space or cosmopedia, in which "the power of disciplinary knowledge is dissolved" (xxiv, x).
These claims echo arguments for the mechanization of knowledge dating back to Vannevar
Bush's Memex proposal (1945) and the World Brain of H. G.Wells (1938), both of which were to
be based on microfilm. Following the advent of hypertext in the 1980s, literary scholars such as
George Landow, Jay David Bolter, and Richard Lanham gained prominence by promoting views
for literature as radical as those of Bush and Wells, promising liberation from the printed text
and the transformation of literary studies by digital the changing profession

DAVID S. MIALL DAVID S. MIALLis professor of English at the University of Alberta. He is

coeditor of Rornonticisrn: The CD-ROM (Blackwells, 1997). His recent publications include
essays on hypertext (Mosaic, 19991, on reading (Discourse Processes, 1999), and on
Wordsworth (Rornonticisrn on the Net, 2000).

https://sites.ualberta.ca/~dmiall/MiallPub/Miall_PMLA_2001.pdf

Why the Internet will Never Replace Books

The Internet is very much like television in that it takes time away from other pursuits, provides
entertainment and information, but in no way can compare with the warm, personal experience
of reading a good book. This is not the only reason why the Internet will never replace books, for
books provide the in-depth knowledge of a subject that sitting in front of a computer monitor
cannot provide. We can download text from an Internet source, but the aesthetic quality of
sheets of downloaded text leave much to be desired. A well-designed book enhances the
reading experience.

The book is still the most compact and inexpensive means of conveying a dense amount of
knowledge in a convenient package. The easy portability of the book is what makes it the most
user-friendly format for knowledge ever invented. The idea that one can carry in one's pocket a
play by Shakespeare, a novel by Charles Dickens or Tom Clancy, Plato's Dialogues, or the Bible
in a small paperback edition is mind-boggling. We take such uncommon convenience for
granted, not realizing that the book itself has undergone quite an evolution since the production
of the Gutenberg Bible in 1455 and Shakespeare's First Folio in 1623, just three years after the
Pilgrims landed at Plymouth to colonize the New World.

Not only has the art and craft of printing and book manufacturing been greatly improved over
the centuries, but the great variety of subject matter now available in books is astounding, to say
the least. In fact, the Internet requires the constant input of authors and their books to provide it
with the information that makes it a useful tool for exploration and learning.

By Sam Blumenfeld
Printed in Practical Homeschooling #27, 1999.

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school.com/Articles/why-the-internet-will-never-replace-books.php

Information on the web is abundant, and anyone can put it there. You can find "proof" of any
belief system you can imagine. If you are using a website as a source in your paper or project,
you need to think critically about where that information is coming from.

You don't want to base your paper off a biased opinion or cite a website that's simply a mask for
advertising.

Instead, you want to find credible, up-to-date, relevant information that's written by an expert or
an authority on the topic, whose claims are based on fact and supported by evidence.

To learn how to separate the good information from the not-so-good or downright bad
information that you might come across on-line, review the next tab and use the C.R.A.A.P. Test
to evaluate a website.

Fitz & Pirillo. (2006). Image: The Whole Internet Truth

http://libguides.stonehill.edu/c.php?g=358557&p=2420856
Books Versus the Internet

Read, Re-read , Revise- havent you heard this a hundreds and thousands of times when you
were a kid back then who went to school every other day? Parents, relatives, neighbours and
whos-who tortured and tampered with all your inclinations and tried to make you fall in love with
the habit of studying. And still, you managed to scrape through all the hassles of reading those
boring chapters and managed to pass out. But now, you are all alone; working somewhere, on
the path of creating of your own identity, your own mark in the big world.

It is time you grow up and realise that you may have managed through the initial stages of your
education without reading much; but, not now. There is a big ocean of knowledge that a book
provides you with. A book is blessed with multiple dimensions of not just literal knowledge, but
also the knowledge of expanding your horizons by sharpening your ability to imagine and
aspire.

Well, to be precise lets say that a book gives you what no other thing in this world can. You may
argue that the Internet is far better. Well in terms of entertainment and visual pleasures, it is. But
in terms of knowledge, and the depth and clarity of information-it is no match for a book. Lets
not forget that while the Internet was born and flourished just some decades ago, books are in
use since centuries. So you may say that the book is the Parent, the source, while the Internet
is its child that is still blooming.

By ankit kandoi | May 13, 2014

http://modifylifestyle.com/books-versus-internet/

LOCAL LITERATURE